Integrated Graphics Gaming Performance
Testing the performance of the new NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI chipset and its integrated graphics core is our next order of business.  The competition: the Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H motherboard featuring AMD’s own 780G chipset.

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ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Review - nForce 780a SLI for Phenom Arrives - Motherboards 85

Looking at the 3DMark scores, the AMD 780G chipset is actually faster in 3DMark06 while the new 3DMark Vantage software leans towards NVIDIA’s mGPU solution.  But let’s see how real games perform…

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ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Review - nForce 780a SLI for Phenom Arrives - Motherboards 87

ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe Review - nForce 780a SLI for Phenom Arrives - Motherboards 88

While the differences between the two chipsets aren’t very dramatic, the fact is that the nForce 780a SLI chipset is not as fast as AMD’s 780G chipset when it comes to real world gaming in modern titles like Call of Duty 4 and Crysis.  When looking at World in Conflict the differences are even more accentuated.

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